The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A new report released by the American Institute of Architects has found that implementing green building techniques in schools has benefits beyond the environment. Test scores and student health have also been shown to increase.</p>

November 1 - The American Institute of Architects

<p>Supervisors in San Francisco have called on the city to impose the affordable housing standards included in the master plan, a move many in the city's planning department fear will bring development in the city's eastern areas to a halt.</p>

November 1 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian

<p>An Australian housing industry body has made the claim that people who can't afford to buy their own homes are contributing to the lack of affordable housing.</p>

November 1 - The Australian

<p>High school students in Northern California step into the shoes of city planners this fall, as they redesign a fictional neighborhood in a decaying town.</p>

November 1 - The Contra Costa Times

<p>Officials in Nevada have made plans to pump water in from a remote and untouched location near the state's border with Utah. Ranchers and environmentalists in Utah are not too happy about it.</p>

November 1 - Salt Lake City Weekly

<p>With a new 20-year master plan, public officials in the Philippines look to create a new tourist hotspot in Alaminos City, which houses 100 small islands.</p>

November 1 - Manila Standard Today

<p>De facto master planning by Federal Government creates more sprawl in the Washington, D.C. region. For example, the FBI field office is moving from Tyson's Corner to Manassas, farther from the Alexandria courts where federal cases are heard.</p>

November 1 - The Washington Post

<p>A design competition for the new Transbay Terminal in San Francisco anticipates only the most high profile international architects to participate.</p>

October 31 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>In a city known for the slogan "Keep Austin Weird," there rages a battle about historic preservation and gentrification, pitting neighbor against neighbor. Jeffrey Chusid shows us how one city tries to maintain its identity in the face of challenge.</p>

October 31 - The Next American City

<p>A Canadian architect has been in the Philippines for the past year designing homes for the country's poorest citizens. His method utilizes whatever building materials can be found to create an easily constructed and long-lasting home.</p>

October 31 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Making cities and urban places more child-friendly was the subject of a recent planning conference in Sydney, Australia. Attendees highlighted some of the ways poor planning can negatively affect childhood development.</p>

October 31 - The Australian

<p>Chesterfield County, Virginia, debates how it will provide needed services to a new 4,886-unit subdivision. Earlier rezoning without cash proffers presents problems for funding adequate school facilities and infrastructure to serve future residents.</p>

October 31 - Richmond Times Dispatch

<p>The controlled growth initiative in Solano County, California, is one of many currently on the ballot in the Bay Area which aim to promote smart growth.</p>

October 31 - The Contra Costa Times

<p>Columbus, Ohio's New Village Place -- winner of the 2006 James B. Recchie Award for Urban Design -- seamlessly marries market-rate and affordable housing with striking designs that respect the historic character and fabric of the neighborhood.</p>

October 31 - The Columbus Dispatch

<p>A new poll of Londoners shows the majority backing a proposal to grant the city's mayor increased power to intervene in the planning process.</p>

October 31 - Ealing Times

<p>A classic Art Deco building in Downtown Baltimore that stood vacant for 15 years has been renovated and updated into one of the area's most extensive uses of green building techniques.</p>

October 31 - E, The Environmental Magazine

<p>In cities across the country, the trend of downtown housing development is booming. Prices per square-foot have more than doubled since last year in some cities.</p>

October 31 - The Denver Post via Chicago Tribune

<p>Experts warn that existing green alternatives are not enough to meeting the world's growing energy demands. But government and private investment in energy research has fallen.</p>

October 31 - The New York Times

<p>A list of the least and most dangerous cities in the United States as ranked by the research and publishing company Morgan Quitno Press.</p>

October 30 - FOX News

<p>Britain calls for urgent action on climate change after the publication of an alarming report by World Bank's chief economist on the impact of global warming.</p>

October 30 - The Financial Times